Word: bulling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
People who like pugs, poodles and dachshunds last week hailed increased entry lists for all three as another sign of their reviving popularity. New breeds entered as a class at the show this year were bull mastiff and Great Pyrenees. Brindled and powerful, with a worried wrinkle in its big, square forehead, the bull mastiff is the result of a cross between mastiff and bulldog. The Great Pyrenees looks something like a white Newfoundland, is an able sheep herder in its native mountains. Lately imported from Europe, its U. S. owners have found it an amiable companion, an excellent watchdog...
During the bull market American Telephone & Telegraph paid no extra dividends, split no stock, put all its extra earnings into surplus. By 1932 that surplus was big enough to have paid each & every stockholder $31. That year, when A. T. & T. and affiliates earned only $5.96, President Walter Gifford took $58,000,000 out of surplus, paid his 700,000 stockholders the customary $9 dividend...
...story was merely erroneous; your editorial was malicious. There are, no doubt, reasonable objections to the new plan for oral examinations. But the statement that it is a plan of the "shrinking violets among the faculty" to replace "petty inferiority complexes" with "true professorial pomposity" itself "smacks of the bull-ring" more than of the editorial column. To attack the plan by calling the originators of it names is a confession of the writer's own inability to think of any better arguments. To call it "boot-licking" simply because it is a system which has been used at Oxford...
With obvious pride in its achievements, the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching scores a feeble bull's eye by asserting that one-third of college seniors are intellectually on a par with high school students. The report then dissolves into 90 pages of general discussion of educational ills and suggests the usual generalities by way of improvement. Despite the mass of blundering detail and despite the Foundation's failure to think any of its problems to practical conclusions the report does raise, if not appreciate, the fundamental problems of American education...
Harvard Medical School authorities were offered yesterday the body of Henry C. Bull, recently executed in the Charlestown state prison. This came because of a last minute request by Bull that his corpse be given to "some scientific institution...